Teaching skills and techniques Books

Science Education Through Multiple Literacies explores how the use of project-based learning in elementary science education fosters a lifelong scientific mindset in students. The book provides educators with the teaching practices to help students...

Teaching with a Social, Emotional, and Cultural Lens goes beyond existing social emotional learning programs to introduce a new framework for integrating the development of key skills needed for academic success into daily classroom practice. The...

This practical resource will help K-5 teachers incorporate digitally supported disciplinary literacy practices into their classroom instruction. With an emphasis on reaching all learners, the authors present Planning for Elementary Digitally-supported...

This practical resource draws on the best of neuroscience to inform decision-making about digital learning. We live in unprecedented times that have pushed schools to make many decisions that have been postponed for years. For the first time since the...

For nearly two decades, Looking Together at Student Work and The Power of Protocols have sustained educators in their professional learning. Protocols in the Classroom expands the scope of those books from teachers' professional learning to include...

Data literacy has become an essential skill set for teachers as education becomes more of an evidence-based profession. Teachers in all stages of professional growth need to learn how to use data effectively and responsibly to inform their teaching...

In this book, Troy Hicks - a leader in the teaching of digital writing - collaborates with seven National Writing Project teacher consultants to provide a protocol for assessing students' digital writing. This collection highlights six case studies...

This is the first book to specifically address the needs of transnational youth, a growing population of students who live and go to school across the United States and other nations including Mexico and different Caribbean islands. The author describes...

When teachers write, good things can happen; writing helps educators to better understand themselves, as well as students, parents, and colleagues. This practical book illustrates how to encourage, lead, and sustain teacher-writers, especially in group...

This book builds on the authors' highly acclaimed first collaboration, Understanding English Language Variation in US Schools, and examines the need to integrate linguistically informed teaching into the secondary English classroom. It includes specific...

Practical Teaching Methods K-6 is designed primarily for K-6 teachers and administrators who wish to examine where they are and where they might go. Each chapter discusses the elements of good teaching in the content areas, providing real examples from...

"Teachers Mentoring Teachers is timely, practical, and engaging-a welcome addition to the literature on retaining and providing meaningful professional development for teachers." Sandra R. Hurley, Associate Dean Program Director, Literacy Education The...

Being Mentored: A Guide for Proteges is written for both potential teachers and mentors. It is a reference guide containing thought-provoking activities and opportunities for applying its principles to the reader's needs. The book offers suggestions for...

Being Mentored: A Guide for Proteges is written for both potential teachers and mentors. It is a reference guide containing thought-provoking activities and opportunities for applying its principles to the reader's needs. The book offers suggestions for...

Teaching your students to think like scientists starts here! If you've ever struggled to help students make scientific arguments from evidence, this practical, easy-to-use activity book is for you! Give your students the critical scientific practice...

Teaching your students to think like scientists starts here! If you've ever struggled to help students make scientific arguments from evidence, this practical, easy-to-use activity book is for you! Give your students the critical scientific practice...

Leon Spreyer draws upon his 27 years of teaching experience to provide student teachers and new teachers with practical information that isn't always taught in teacher education courses. He includes games, book recommendations, specific lesson plans and...

Parental involvement is central to improved student performance, and in this book the authors illustrate how sustained parental involvement not only improves individual performance, but also has transformed classrooms and even entire schools. Reaching...

Parental involvement is central to improved student performance, and in this book the authors illustrate how sustained parental involvement not only improves individual performance, but also has transformed classrooms and even entire schools. Reaching...

Take classroom changes in stride with these ingenious ideas! Today's classrooms exist in an ever-changing world. In addition to new adopting technologies, schools are constantly introducing changes in curriculum, instruction, testing, and advanced...

The authors introduce students to the requirements that their degree programmes will make and explore issues such as behaviour management and national curriculum strategies, helping readers to engage with the material in a way that is appropriate to...

Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924, details the approaches and outcomes of sex education initiatives in the Progressive Era. In analyzing the rhetorical strategies of sex-education advocates, Robin E. Jensen engages with rich...

'As one would expect from Bill Rogers, given his experience as a teacher, consultant , speaker and author, this book is highly readable, with many interesting and useful anecdotes to illustrate the points he makes' - Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties...

The Full-Time Faculty Handbook examines the major components of a life in the academy - teaching, advisi ng, publishing, research, and service. '

Gain a deeper understanding of how students learn to read! This professional development resource collection explores current research on the science of reading and discusses what it means for classrooms today. From detailed background information to...

Clarifying the fine art of workshop design and facilitation, this book - aimed particularly at social workers - is the ultimate guide to setting up and running a workshop. The authors' model takes account of experiential learning and individual learning...

Clarifying the fine art of workshop design and facilitation, this book - aimed particularly at social workers - is the ultimate guide to setting up and running a workshop. The authors' model takes account of experiential learning and individual learning...

In this handy and practical book, Elisa Carb one offers a wealth of sound advice on how to deal with a la rge class, from the first day to the end of term evaluations . '

Physics for ages 12-14 Chemistry for ages 12-13 Roy Wilkinson outlines the background and practical guidelines for teaching these subjects: 6th grade--sound, light, heat, magnetism, electricity 7th grade--6th-grade subjects continued; mechanics,...

The author explores and comments the fairy tales Little Red Cap (aka Little Red Riding Hood), Mary's Child, Briar Rose and The Handless Maiden. The worldwide popularity of Walt Disney's film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs compelled the author to write...

Physics for ages 12-14 Chemistry for ages 12-13 Roy Wilkinson outlines the background and practical guidelines for teaching these subjects: 6th grade--sound, light, heat, magnetism, electricity 7th grade--6th-grade subjects continued; mechanics,...

England's most prolific master teacher offers a concise overview of the task and method of imparting a sound understanding of English (or any mother language) to students in grades 1 through 8. Topics: Teaching English The Origin of Language The Various...

At one level, the teaching and learning foreign languages has its own set of skills and challenges for teacher and student. In Steiner-Waldorf schools, however, the guiding principle of language teaching is constant: to engage with all aspects of the...

Teaching is a rewarding, yet demanding profession, one in which a person needs to be fully prepared. This book focuses on the applied psychological skills, strategies and resources, which will help to ensure you are equipped with personal and...

The Perfect Further Education Lesson will help teachers, trainers, tutors and assessors provide consistently outstanding learning experiences that make a real difference to their learners. It removes the mystery surrounding outstanding learning, and...

This full colour book will show you how to use photography in the classroom across all subjects. Sometimes there are real barriers to learning - whether social or cultural or simply ability or motivation - but photography has something to offer everyone:...

The Brain Box is your indispensable guide not only to powering through the stress, hard work and brain-ache of school or college, but also to establishing good learning habits and self-motivation which will be invaluable throughout the next stage of your...

It is hard to imagine how one decision to make a TV series would lead to this. Vic Goddard says, “As much as I have been uncomfortable at times through the last two years it is hard to be anything other than thankful that we did it. The school has grown...

So what is Punk Learning? It details the importance of why all students should be allowed complete control of their learning.In Never Mind the Inspectors Tait justifies why we need Punk Learning, explains the philosophy behind the box ticking lessons...

In a dynamic and ever changing education climate it is important to re-evaluate practice in schools on a regular basis in order to ensure that we are doing the right thing for our children. With questions being raised over the value of homework, Mark...

When you are a teacher and new technology is all your pupils and colleagues are talking about it can feel like the loneliest, hardest place in the world to be, but it doesn't have to be this way. No one knows this better than author Simon Pridham, who...

Technology is at the heart of learning for all of us and every teacher needs to be using social media, mobile technologies and transformational digital learning opportunities as an integral part of their range of strategies for helping students make the...

The Perfect Teacher presents a pragmatic, practical guide to help you grow and flourish so that you can become the outstanding teacher who makes the difference between success and failure for the next generation. Expectations are high, time is short -...

Part of Phil Beadle's How to Teach Series.The only book full of ideas for lesson plenaries you'll ever need.You paint an outside wall. It rains. What happens to the paint? It runs off, of course! So it is with our students. We teach them something. We...

Do you want to learn more about the evidence, or lack of evidence, supporting common teaching strategies and procedures? An Introduction to Evidence-Based Teaching in English Language Learning compiles the evidence in one place for you, rather than...

Why young people (and teachers) need their school leaderto be brave now more than ever School leadership brings with it tremendous pressure from the government for results at all costs. It's the outcome that counts (and the league tables) not the process...

If you did the calculations you would discover that during their primary school years, a child will spend roughly 70 days in assembly, and possibly a further 52 days during their secondary years. This can be either time that is simply lost and forgotten...

Based on Jim Smith's learning and leadership work with schools across the country, this book is packed with highly practical solutions and suggestions that are proven to help you improve the quality of learning (and therefore progress!) both in your...